Thursday, June 27 is National Post Traumatic Stress Awareness Day. The Department of Veterans Affairs also makes it PTSD Screening Day to let veterans know treatments are available. There is no time ...

The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs is funding a psychedelic-assisted therapy study for veterans with PTSD and alcohol use disorder. Researchers from Yale University and Brown University will ...

WASHINGTON — The Department of Veterans Affairs will launch its first clinical study since the 1960s into the effectiveness of psychedelic drugs as a treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder, the ...

"No other institution works on PTSD, like the VA is," said Dr. Amin Zand Vakili, one of the many mental health researchers at the Providence VA. "We have a very good understanding of what diabetes is, ...

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) this week authorized a long-delayed clinical trial to test whether smoking marijuana can be used to treat post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in veterans. The ...

A drug prescribed to veterans suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder nightmares has been recalled for high traces of a chemical that could be cancerous. Food and Drug Administration recalled ...

BIG SPRING, Texas — When most people think of veterans with PTSD, the stereotype they picture is that it’s more common in older veterans, but the West Texas VA in Big Spring said that’s just not the ...

After a traumatic event, most people feel shock, anger, nervousness, fear, and even guilt. Although these feelings may be intense for a while, they usually lessen with time and eventually go away.

August 22, 2011 — A new test that screens for posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) takes about 5 minutes to administer, appears to outperform other screening methods, and can be easily incorporated ...